I got to thinking about it earlier in the week, one of the things about the audio books that we create about the Founding Fathers does is that it humanizes them.
I should try to make it a point to rant about that more often.
The Universities have only spent over a century de-humanizing and gutting them. I am sure I’ve probably made the point before but it really struck me this week, I have been re-listening to several sections of Frothingham.
Old historians didn’t just want to memorize stats and facts and figures and dates and numbers. They truly wanted to tell the story and memorialize the events in the proper order. Tell the STORY, a narrative, but not something fictionally made up.
Maybe Truth Social can start doing such projects.
You make excellent points.
The best case in point of this “de-humanizing” effect is, oddly enough, George Washington. I have tried to read enough books about him to cobble together an impression of him as a person that is far, far better than anything I have ever seen in a history book. (To be fair, a history book cannot do that, but I think you get my point)
Sometimes this de-humanizing is deliberate, as is the case with Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and they had their excuse from day one while McCarthy was still alive.
With figures like Washington, Jefferson, et al, all it takes is the passage of time with Leftists to find excuses to demonize and de-emphasize them, which we see now.
That is why I admire your focus on this.